User-Centered Design (UCD) Contracts in London

User-Centered Design (UCD)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring User-Centered Design (UCD) skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited User-Centered Design (UCD) over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 245 303 334
Rank change year-on-year +58 +31 -26
Contract jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) 108 88 163
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.86% 0.49% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 0.56% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 57 110
10th Percentile £375 £381 £449
25th Percentile £450 £425 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £580
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -9.48% +10.48%
75th Percentile £585 £613 £650
90th Percentile £649 £693 £726
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £22.75 £41.51 £46.25
Median hourly rate £23.50 £41.68 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.61% -12.26% -
75th Percentile £60.37 £41.84 £48.75
90th Percentile £82.04 - -
England median hourly rate £57.75 £41.68 £47.50
% change year-on-year +38.57% -12.26% +129.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

User-Centered Design (UCD) falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing User-Centered Design (UCD) as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for User-Centered Design (UCD) in London

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) in London.

Daily rate trend for User-Centered Design (UCD) in London

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User-Centered Design (UCD) in London

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) in London.

Hourly rate trend for User-Centered Design (UCD) in London

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for User-Centered Design (UCD) in London

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +15 20 £513 -8.89% 14
South London - 5 £583 -
West London - 4 £427 - 1
East London +17 3 £495 -8.33% 1
User-Centered Design (UCD)
England

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (12.04%) Confluence
2 5 (4.63%) CMS
2 5 (4.63%) Drupal
3 4 (3.70%) nginx
Applications
1 14 (12.96%) Sketch
2 9 (8.33%) Adobe XD
3 2 (1.85%) Adobe After Effects
3 2 (1.85%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (1.85%) Blender
3 2 (1.85%) CINEMA 4D
3 2 (1.85%) Final Cut Pro
4 1 (0.93%) InVision
4 1 (0.93%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.93%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.85%) Shopify
3 1 (0.93%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 28 (25.93%) Figma
2 16 (14.81%) AWS
3 9 (8.33%) IaaS
4 8 (7.41%) SaaS
5 6 (5.56%) Azure
5 6 (5.56%) GitHub
6 4 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (3.70%) Miro
6 4 (3.70%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.78%) Slack
8 2 (1.85%) BigCommerce
9 1 (0.93%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 1 (0.93%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.93%) GCP
9 1 (0.93%) Lucidchart
9 1 (0.93%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 1 (0.93%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 1 (0.93%) Sentry
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.70%) Power BI
1 4 (3.70%) Qlik Sense
1 4 (3.70%) Spotfire
2 3 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.93%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (12.96%) JIRA
2 9 (8.33%) ScriptRunner
3 6 (5.56%) Axure RP
4 2 (1.85%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.93%) Balsamiq
General
1 37 (34.26%) Social Skills
2 30 (27.78%) Public Sector
3 21 (19.44%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (14.81%) Finance
5 7 (6.48%) Banking
6 6 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (4.63%) Military
7 5 (4.63%) Retail
8 4 (3.70%) Games
8 4 (3.70%) Local Government
9 3 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.93%) Aviation
11 1 (0.93%) Electronics
11 1 (0.93%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.93%) Marketing
11 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (36.11%) Designer
2 28 (25.93%) Senior
3 11 (10.19%) Analyst
3 11 (10.19%) Senior Designer
4 10 (9.26%) Business Analyst
4 10 (9.26%) Product Designer
4 10 (9.26%) UX Designer
5 8 (7.41%) Developer
5 8 (7.41%) Service Designer
5 8 (7.41%) UI Designer
5 8 (7.41%) User Researcher
6 7 (6.48%) Content Designer
6 7 (6.48%) Product Manager
6 7 (6.48%) Senior Product Designer
7 6 (5.56%) Interaction Designer
7 6 (5.56%) Junior
7 6 (5.56%) UI/UX Designer
8 5 (4.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (4.63%) Senior Developer
8 5 (4.63%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.96%) CSS
2 13 (12.04%) HTML
3 8 (7.41%) React
4 3 (2.78%) JPA
5 2 (1.85%) Framer.js
5 2 (1.85%) Node.js
5 2 (1.85%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (1.85%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.85%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.85%) VML
6 1 (0.93%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.93%) Spring
6 1 (0.93%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.96%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.63%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.78%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.78%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.85%) Animation
5 2 (1.85%) Educational Technology
5 2 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.93%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.93%) Life Science
6 1 (0.93%) NHS
6 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.93%) Sports Betting
6 1 (0.93%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.93%) Android
1 1 (0.93%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (62.04%) Agile
2 52 (48.15%) User Experience
3 42 (38.89%) User Research
4 35 (32.41%) UX Design
5 23 (21.30%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (18.52%) Prototyping
6 20 (18.52%) Usability Testing
7 19 (17.59%) Wireframes
8 17 (15.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 16 (14.81%) Service Design
10 15 (13.89%) Interaction Design
11 13 (12.04%) Risk Management
11 13 (12.04%) Visualisation
12 12 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
12 12 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
13 11 (10.19%) Analytics
13 11 (10.19%) Design Thinking
13 11 (10.19%) Journey Map
13 11 (10.19%) Performance Tuning
13 11 (10.19%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 12 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 9 (8.33%) Groovy
3 5 (4.63%) TypeScript
4 4 (3.70%) Python
4 4 (3.70%) SQL
5 3 (2.78%) Java
6 2 (1.85%) Kotlin
6 2 (1.85%) R
7 1 (0.93%) Scala
Qualifications
1 25 (23.15%) Security Cleared
2 20 (18.52%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.19%) Degree
4 2 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (27.78%) Accessibility
2 9 (8.33%) QA
3 3 (2.78%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (4.63%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (14.81%) Adobe
2 9 (8.33%) Atlassian
2 9 (8.33%) SAP
3 4 (3.70%) Databricks
3 4 (3.70%) Oracle
4 3 (2.78%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.85%) Foundry
5 2 (1.85%) Palantir
5 2 (1.85%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.93%) Brio
6 1 (0.93%) Microsoft